I have a challenge that needs a strategy. Here it is:
I am using Aperture 3.1 for all photo work now on my MacPro. Successful conversion from iPhoto thanks to ApertureExpert “In Depth Getting Started with Aperture 3” Guide. Well worth the $$$.
My wife has a MBP and she asked me to get her all our pictures onto her computer so she can email to friends, make albums, post to facebook, etc. Did I mention she asked for ALL the pictures? Well that is 27k since we've been dating, getting married and having kids.
The 27k photos translates to approx 500 projects and I can't figure out how to migrate easily so they show up as events for her iPhoto. First I tried exporting them all so I could give her jpegs at 50%. I had hoped that iPhoto would treat the folder like an camera card and split the import by the event preferences (we use 1 event per day) but they all come into iPhoto as one big 27k event. I can do the exports one at a time in a unique folder and then import one at at time but that would not be fun for me.
Second attempt was to select about 10 projects and export as new aperture library hoping that once in their own library that the projects would somehow convert to events when migrated to iPhoto. That didn't work either because iPhoto won't recognize the Aperture library. Aperture doesn't appear (at least to me) to have a “back to iPhoto so my wife will stop getting mad at me for hogging all the pictures” feature.
Does anyone have a solve for this besides teaching her to use Aperture?
Thank you in advance.
Doug Sillers
Doug,
Good “seeing” you again old friend :)
I like the “back to iPhoto so my wife will stop getting mad at me for hogging all the pictures” idea. Sounds about right!
Did you try drag-and-drop? I just ran a simple test; I had a folder called “Aperture pictures” containing two folders, “Day 1” and “Event 2”. I put JPGs in each of those two folders, and dragged the “Aperture Pictures” folder into the Events view in iPhoto. It created two events, named “Day 1” and “Event 2”.
Would that do what you need?
-Joseph @ApertureExpert
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Doug,
Fantastic! Glad to hear it. Happy holidays to you and the iWife :)
-Joseph @ApertureExpert
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Hey Dood-
At first I got all excited. Why didn’t I think of that? Then I tried dragging Projects from Aperture over to iPhoto open on monitor two. No luck. iPhoto won’t recognize the drag.
Then I thought about the other challenge. I shoot RAW and load to Aperture on Mac Pro. Wife should get reduced jpegs in folders that will become events for moving into her iPhoto library on MacBook Pro. For that to happen I think I am stuck having to export out of Aperture one at a time.
The feature I am missing is for Aperture to export multiple projects to respective folders so the import can happen and retain the org structure found in Aperture. Currently if I select multiple projects to export they all go into one folder. I would settle on iPhoto treating the pictures found in that one folder as a camera card so it could apply the event splits (as set in preferences) as a minimum alternative to exporting 500+ projects by hand.
As far as I can tell the only solution is to Export one project at a time so the reduction and translation to jpeg can happen from RAW. I will then have to make a unique folder for that export to save into with the same name as the project in Aperture so the Event will be named properly when I try your suggestion to just drag and drop into iPhoto.
If ya think of anything, let me know. I’ll be doing this slowly when I can handle the monotony of repeating steps over and over and over.
~ Doug
- Doug
Doug,
The drag-and-drop I’m referring to is from the Finder, not from Aperture.
I just tested and this works fine:
1. Select multiple projects in Aperture
2. Export to Subfolder Format: Project Name (and of course your Export Preset: to whatever you like). This will give you a series of folders, each named for the project name, each with the project’s photos in it.
3. Drag and drop those folders (from the Finder) into iPhoto.
Voilà
-Joseph @ApertureExpert
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Thought I’d close the loop and share that my iWife is exceptionally happy. Just in time for her to order cards and books for Xmas too. Thanks for solving my issue.
I simply exported with subfolders. Chose to leave the version names the same so any RAW file needed would be the same name. Then just as you said, I dragged and dropped into iPhoto and transferred the library for her laptop.
Nice! Thanks Joseph.
- Doug